Amd graphics card

AMD is set to release its latest chips, the Radeon RX 5500 and 5500M.

With October opening up the fourth quarter of 2019, we are anywhere from a couple of days to a month or two away from this release.

It is no doubt that AMD will likely shoot to have the cards on the market by the time the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush begins.

AMD’s new Radeon RX 5500 graphics card fits right into their usual style by being more powerful than similar chips from their competitors but with less of the price tag.

The RX 5500 is comparable to Nvidia’s GTX 1650 which means it is likely targeting the 1080p crowd but undercutting the competition with a cost lower than the GTX’s 4150.

The RX 5500 will be available in both mobile computing and desktop modules.

The 5500 and 5500M are expected to work and behave similarly as they both have PCIe 4.0 support in addition to using GDDR6 RAM. Both chips are also based on the same 7nm RDNA process while using 22 SIMD units to move things right along.

Looking at things from the mobile perspective, AMD believes they will maintain 96 frames per second on 1080p with Medium settings on Apex Legends while claiming a GTX 1650 in a similar setup gets 77fps.

In a series of head-to-head competitions on familiar games like Battlefield 5 and Borderlands 3, AMD claims their competition, the Nvidia GTX 1650 consistently underperforms in comparison to AMD’s RX 5500 getting 79fps and 61 fps respectively while the 1650 can only muster 55fps and 47fps respectively.

Even those these results come directly from AMD there is still reason to believe the RX 5500 will live up to these numbers as AMD generally produces chips with results slightly better than Nvidia’s as they are claiming once again in this case.

These two GPUs have some clear differences AMD’s chips consistently perform far better than the similar GTX 1650 counterparts.

Each card ships with all of AMD’s more recent graphics releases. Aspects like FidelityFX, which sharpens in-game details as well as better in-game renders.

With Anti-Lag, users will see milliseconds shaved off lag between a player’s keypress and the corresponding actions in the game on the screen.

AMD set the Radeon RX 5500 and 5500M to release in the Q4 2019 release window so we should be seeing them appearing in computers and on the market any day now.

As usual and unfortunately so, AMD plans to put them in systems from manufacturers before sending them to independent ‘at-home’ builders and as such, there is still no word on exact pricing or availability.

Keep your ears and eyes open in the coming weeks as AMD will likely release more information shortly as to cost structures and product availability.

Often times these statistics will be released and used to gauge consumer and manufacturer interest before the proverbial point of no return, ie. the actual release their Radeon 5500 and 5500M.

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